The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 191 Scare
The time was approaching the end of the new year, and as the clan's wife of the Duke's Mansion, Song Yaxin was supposed to be at her busiest time, but because she was pregnant, Xu Youzhong kept her in the house and prevented her from being busy.

Song Yaxin, however, was restless. She always felt that such a big event during the New Year was her unshirkable responsibility as the wife of the eldest son. Asking her to lie in the house like this and do nothing, she felt really uncomfortable.

Xu Youzhong couldn't persuade her, so he had to ask Song Qingyue to persuade her.

Song Qingyue settled her eldest sister with one sentence: "Sister, if you don't take care of yourself during pregnancy, you will become a yellow-faced woman after giving birth!"

"Really... really?" Song Yaxin was shocked immediately.

Women really care about looks the most.

Song Qingyue nodded very positively: "If it is more serious, in case of miscarriage, it will be difficult to conceive again next time. My brother-in-law will sleep with my concubine, have a baby with my concubine, and hold someone else's baby. Then you just wait for someone to cry miserably!"

Song Yaxin was too frightened to move, Xu Youzhong heard the veins on his forehead twitching, and he wanted to roll up his sleeves and rush over to throw this nonsense sister-in-law out!
It's too ugly to speak!He asked her to comfort his wife, not to scare people!
However, Song Qingyue's intimidation had an effect. In the next few days, Song Yaxin would stay in the house obediently, and be a hands-off shopkeeper who didn't care about everything. Aunt Bai, Aunt Shen and Aunt Huang took care of all the New Year's matters. , anyway, they did it together in previous years.

It's just that there are a few more Buddhas in the mansion this year, including Su Wang's son Li Zhao, his own son, and his wife who is pregnant. This can't be done in a simple way like in previous years, it has to be done extravagantly.

As for Song Yaxin, she took her maids to make small clothes and trousers for the unborn child in her room every day, while Song Qingyue still had lessons with Li Zhao every day.

When she was playing chess with Li Zhao that day, Li Zhao suddenly smiled and said, "A few days ago, I watched Xu Youzhong calculate the expenses for the Chinese New Year in the army, and I felt anxious when I watched it from the sidelines. It is much more convenient for you to use these symbols." .”

"You didn't do the math for him?" Song Qingyue asked.

Li Zhao dropped his son and shook his head: "Then it's called meddling in military affairs. If I want to do this, Grandpa Huang will have to find ways to punish my father?"

Song Qingyue glanced at him, thinking that this villain is very arrogant and measured, jumping to death near the bottom line, but never stepping on the bottom line, heh...

But suddenly I remembered that cave, and I don't know how many caves like that exist, so it's not that I don't step on the bottom line, just don't step on the bright side.

"How do you celebrate the New Year in the military?" Song Qingyue asked.

"Border defense is more difficult, that is, eating a good meal and drinking crispy wine. The patrols should be patrolled, and what should be done. The time for the Tartars to celebrate the New Year is different from that of us Han people. When Xu Gongye and Xu Youzhong celebrate the New Year Probably have to stay in the barracks and spend time with the soldiers. The soldiers in the domestic guards are more relaxed and can go home to reunite with their wives and children."

After finishing speaking, Li Zhao suddenly chuckled twice sexyly, and pointed to a large area on the lower left foot of the chessboard.

When Song Qingyue saw it, her face turned pale in shock, and she wanted to smash her head on the table angrily, and she fell into the trap again!When did you get in?Surrounded by a large area...

Seeing her aggrieved and angrily lying on the small table and hammering the chessboard crazily, Li Zhao laughed loudly. He pulled Song Qingyue up when he had laughed enough, scratched her nose lightly, and said, "Come on, I will teach you how to do it for my husband." How about now."

He talked gently about several situations, how to save him, and if he couldn't save him, how to get back in other places.

People in the Zhou Dynasty played chess similar to modern people playing mahjong. Friends played chess for money. The amount of money lost was related to the number of pieces lost. Therefore, even if you lost, you must try your best to recover. Only by losing fewer pieces can you lose less money. .

Take one step to see five or six steps, and masters can even see more than ten steps. It is not only a strategy, but also a psychological warfare.Of course, she is not yet ready to play psychological warfare with Li Zhao.Li Zhao now played chess with her like tricking a cat to tease a dog, basically no need to waste his brain.

Looking at the smile on his face now, Song Qingyue is three-point complacent, plus seven-point careless and romantic, which will surely arouse her desire to draw a masterpiece in normal times, but right now, she is so violent that she just wants to bite people.

"Do it all over again!" She took a deep breath, suppressing her depression and irritability, and rolled up her sleeves as if to fight.

However, Li Zhao looked like a god and old way, shook his head and took the chess pieces: "You are not calm, you lose your composure, and you will lose even worse. Let's continue next time."

Song Qingyue raised her eyebrows, she was even more unwilling to be reconciled to what he said, she blocked his hand and said, "No, let's have another game."

Seeing her stubbornness and unwillingness to admit defeat, Li Zhao smiled and obeyed her: "Okay, then as a teacher, I will accompany Yue'er to the next game."

Song Qingyue looked down at the chessboard intently this time, and didn't say a word. Li Zhao thought it was funny, and asked, "Was the lady so strong when she was young?"

Song Qingyue looked at the chessboard in silence, didn't answer, didn't even raise her eyes.

The person who has always been the first in the class since he was a child will cry when he is the second in the exam. Can a person who is not strong be a top student?

Li Zhao looked at her like that, found it interesting, and kept looking for topics to tease her, but Song Qingyue just played chess seriously and ignored him.

So as they played, Li Zhao's expression changed, and finally he stopped talking, and the two began to play chess dully.

Xiao Huangmen, an errand in the dining room, ran in, wanting to say that the lunch was ready and could pass it on, but Lin Wanfu tightly covered his mouth and dragged him to the ear room.

"Hush!" Lin Wanfu sternly told him to shut up.

Xiao Huangmen glanced at the quiet room where needles could be heard, and asked in a whisper in fear: "Boss, are you quarreling again?"

Lin Wanfu glared at him: "Want to be punished? Did you inquire?"

Xiao Huangmen shrank his neck and said hurriedly.

Lin Wanfu thought to himself that his Highness's chess skill was once called a child prodigy by the master Fang Bailing. Although he had never formally worshiped his master, he had indeed been instructed by Fang Bailing himself for a period of time.When he was ten years old, he gnawed his soy elbow, and killed so many old masters in the chess hall that he doubted his life, and his beard was almost bald;

At that time, in order to make his son happy, His Royal Highness Su Wang took Li Zhao to Jiangxi, where there are many talented people, to find a talented person to play chess.

If it is easy to call Shi Zifei, a rookie who has only learned it for less than two months, to win, where will His Highness lose face?
However, Lin Wanfu still worried too much. It didn't take long for Song Qingyue to be defeated by the serious Li Zhao.

She spread out on the soft couch dejectedly, so angry that she didn't even want to eat.

"How can you teach students like this! You have killed all your self-confidence!" She muttered dissatisfiedly.

Li Zhao went over to hug her and coaxed her, "Okay, it's my husband's fault. Next time I'll make you nine?"

"I don't want to learn from you! I want to change my master!" Song Qingyue protested.

Li Zhao immediately put on a serious face: "Who do you want to learn from, my lady? Who can be better than my husband?"

"I can learn from anyone, anyway, I don't want to learn from you. Ah, yes, I'll go find my fourth brother! Who can't play chess anymore, hum!" Song Qingyue got up and went to find Song Chenrui. He was dragged back by Li Zhao.

Li Zhao put his arms around her waist tightly, and said seductively, "Yue'er learns from Weifu. Although it is hard work, I guarantee that you will be able to walk sideways in the big chess halls in the capital after a year. But if you learn from your fourth brother, it is considered a learning." Not so much for three or four years."

Song Qingyue was skeptical: "Husband is so good? My fourth brother's chess skills are better than my father's."

The fourth brother Song Chenrui loves to play, cockfighting, running dogs and raising crickets. Without him, he would not know it. Mr. Song started working in the Imperial Academy at the age of 19. He didn’t have time to study those things. Song Chenrui is different. He has time, money and time. Regardless of him, he can do everything, and he can play chess quite well.

"Give it a try. My lady will learn from my husband for a year, and then I will play chess with your fourth brother, until he wants to go home and study hard to take the imperial examination." Li Zhao looked at her and smiled.

Song Qingyue raised her eyebrows: "Okay, then I'll try."

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On New Year's Eve, Grandpa Xu and Shizi Xu both went to the military camp to celebrate the New Year with the soldiers.Mo Yun, Mo Xiang, and Feng Jiu came back from Liangzhou to celebrate the New Year with Song Qingyue.

Song Yaxin vomited badly during pregnancy, and saw the meaty table at the New Year's Eve dinner, throwing up in the dark.

Aunt Bai, who was in charge of preparing the New Year's Eve dinner, turned pale, for fear that her father-in-law would come back and blame her.

But she is really a clever woman who can't cook without rice. In the winter in the northwest, there is really nothing delicious except beef and mutton.

Fortunately, when Song Qingyue came, he brought a lot of pickles, pickled cabbage, capers, dried plum vegetables, canned fruits and so on.

She knew that there were no such things to eat here. When she traveled to Shaanxi and Gansu in her previous life, she felt that there were few vegetables here. Potatoes can't be called vegetables, they are all starch.

According to the Cantonese, there is no food in the Northwest that is not "hot".

The corners of the mouths of southerners who went to the Northwest for a week were about to get blisters, so Song Qingyue specially asked Mo Yun and the others to bring a lot of fruits and vegetables to eat before coming here. If they can't eat fresh ones, they can eat some canned and pickled vegetables to make them feel better.

During the period from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, officials and family members of generals from Suzhou, Yongchang, Liangzhou and even Zhuanglang have been visiting.These four places are all under the leadership of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division in Suzhou.

The family members of Hamiwei, Shazhouwei, Quxianwei, Andingwei and Handongwei in the west also basically lived in these towns.

Therefore, during the Chinese New Year period, the Grand General's Mansion was very lively with people coming and going.

Hearing the news that Mrs. Xu Guogong's eldest son is pregnant, many people came to congratulate her.

Song Qingyue was always by the side, afraid that her sister would not tell when she was tired, and Imperial Physician Jiang was also on call in the side room at any time. Whenever Song Qingyue found her sister was tired, she would order her to go back to the inner room to sleep and rest, and she would share the outside affairs.

Song Qingyue is very familiar with the wives of the generals in Suzhou and Liangzhou, and with them taking care of her, she enjoys eating among the wives.

Song Yaxin thought she couldn't handle it, but she saw that she greeted and sent the guests away for herself, and she did it very properly and thoughtfully, there was nothing wrong with it.

During the rest, she hugged Song Qingyue's shoulders and smiled: "I thought you couldn't do these things, but you did a good job. After you return to the palace next year, my sister can feel more at ease."

Song Qingyue clicked her tongue and frowned: "I don't like it, and it's not that I don't know how to do it."

Song Yaxin laughed at her: "You still don't like it now?"

Song Qingyue shook her head: "I still don't like it, I'm so tired, it's more exhausting than running a factory."

In the study, Xu Youzhong came back from the military camp and chatted with Li Zhao over tea. There must be no good green tea in this season, so Li Zhao brewed Shoumei Old Baihao Silver Needle for 20 years.

Although Xu Youzhong is the son of the royal family, he really doesn't know as much as Li Zhao when it comes to eating, drinking, playing and enjoying.

In Xu Youzhong's eyes, Li Zhao is just a wonderful thing.When I first met him, Li Zhaolao mixed up with the ignorant fourth child of the Ning family, the playboy born to Princess Pingyang, and the stupid little Qi Tian of the Meng family, within two months. He became the dandy leader of the capital.

He thought Li Zhao was also ignorant.

At that time, Xu Youzhong was still the companion of His Royal Highness Li Sheng.

But after Li Zhao, a dandy, entered the palace school, he read books better than His Highness the eldest grandson, and his articles were repeatedly praised by several old scholars.

Li Zhao's boxing and kicking skills were not bad. Seeing his slender figure, he thought he was not very strong, but he had no problem at all when he was asked to draw a hard bow of sixty or seventy catties.

In fact, at that time, all the nobles and wealthy families in the capital regarded Li Zhao as a role model in life. Whenever they were urged by their parents to work hard and not to go out to play, everyone brought out His Royal Highness Su Wang's Mansion. thing.

In the end, it was time to play together, and I didn't see anyone studying as well as him.

"I don't know that the tea will be kept for another 30 to [-] years." Xu Youzhong carefully tried a sip, smacking his lips, feeling pretty good, with a special aroma, very mellow.

"Well, those produced in Fujian and Yunnan are not tributes, so they are rare in the north." Li Zhao said indifferently.

When it comes to tribute, this is a bit sensitive.

It is said that the emperor is rich all over the world, but there are many good things that the emperor has never enjoyed or seen, so Xu Youzhong didn't answer this question, and directly changed the subject, saying: "There are so many people during the Chinese New Year, I was worried that Xin'er would Toil, I didn't expect the third sister to be more nervous than me as a husband, Xin Er. The third younger sister is capable, and I see that she is more familiar with those generals' wives than Xin Er."

Li Zhao took a sip of tea and said leisurely, "The brothers and sisters of the Song family are friendly. This is because the Song family has a good family style, and Master Song taught it well. It is our good fortune that you and I can marry a girl from the Song family."

Xu Youzhong smiled, thinking of Song Qingyue's ability to set up a factory, and his wife's wholehearted trust in her concubine sister, he seemed to understand why Li Zhao abandoned his eldest daughter instead of marrying her. A young concubine.

What a beautiful and wonderful woman.

He suddenly asked: "Your Highness really met the third sister for the first time in the suburbs of Beijing?"

"Of course I knew it when I was young. Many people in the capital knew about the fact that I kidnapped her to scare her, including the emperor's grandfather. Many people impeached my father because of this incident. My son The position is almost gone." Li Zhao still drank tea leisurely, without any abnormality.

"It's really just that one thing?" Xu Youzhong asked tentatively.

Li Zhao looked at him with a half-smile: "What else can I have? If you don't believe it, it's okay to check it out."

Xu Youzhong snorted: "I don't have that much time to spare."

(End of this chapter)